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Neo Bankside: how Richard Rogers's new 'non-dom accom' cut out the poorhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/jul/21/neo-bankside-how-richard-rogers-new-non-dom-accom-cut-out-the-poor
<p>Questions are raised about the project’s inclusion on the Stirling prize shortlist after details emerge that developers failed to live up to its original affordable housing claims – setting a dangerous precedent for developments everywhere</p><p>When the Stirling prize shortlist was announced last week there were gasps of incredulity that <a href="http://www.rsh-p.com/projects/neo-bankside/">Neo Bankside</a>, the angular cluster of luxury flats poking up behind Tate Modern in London, had muscled its way into a group of otherwise well-meaning buildings. What was this project doing on the list, many asked, as both a symbol of London’s iniquitous housing market and a project that’s not even one of Richard Rogers’s best? It looks like something churned out by his office’s B-team, generic glass silos wrapped in the trademark steel bracing, destined for a corner of the world where critics hopefully wouldn’t notice.</p><p>Echoing the surprise <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/16/stirling-prize-2015-uk-housing-crisis">expressed in these pages</a>, the project was slammed from all sides. This “stratospherically priced non-dom accom”, wrote Catherine Slessor, former editor of the Architectural Review, is “depressingly emblematic of how London is turning into a coarser version of Paris (unaffordable core, atomised banlieues)”. It is there “to remind us how money is driving housing as asset class rather than home”, agreed Financial Times critic Edwin Heathcote (<a href="http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/riba-stirling-prize-2015-the-critics-choose-their-favourites/8686303.article">in a piece that, like Slessor’s, was published in Architects’ Journal</a>). “Neo Blingside?” quipped the Independent’s Jay Merrick.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/16/stirling-prize-2015-uk-housing-crisis">Stirling prize 2015 shortlist highlights UK's desperate housing crisis</a> </p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jun/25/london-developers-viability-planning-affordable-social-housing-regeneration-oliver-wainwright">Revealed: how developers exploit flawed planning system to minimise affordable housing</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/jul/21/neo-bankside-how-richard-rogers-new-non-dom-accom-cut-out-the-poor">Continue reading...</a>Stirling prizeArchitectureRichard RogersArt and designCultureAwards and prizesDesignHousingSocial housingSocietyPlanning policyCommunitiesLondonLocal governmentCitiesTue, 21 Jul 2015 12:12:33 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/jul/21/neo-bankside-how-richard-rogers-new-non-dom-accom-cut-out-the-poorPhotograph: Alec Boreham Architecture / Alam/AlamyPhotograph: Alec Boreham Architecture / Alam/AlamyOliver Wainwright2015-07-21T12:12:33ZThe street that might win the Turner prize: how Assemble are transforming Toxtethhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/may/12/assemble-turner-prize-2015-wildcard-how-the-young-architecture-crew-assemble-rocked-the-art-world
<p>It’s not quite a pickled calf – but the rebirth of a troubled Toxteth community might be art. The story of the street and the young architects succeeding where every official plan has failed has caught the art world’s attention</p><p>At the end of Granby Street in Liverpool’s Toxteth, past relentless rows of tinned-up houses punctuated by half-demolished corner shops, the mood is unusually festive. Television crews have been here for the past few days, camping out amid the jungle of pavement plant pots and poking their cameras into tumble-down terraces. But for once they haven’t come to report on the sorry story of urban dereliction that has plagued these streets for the past 30 years. It’s not the usual social affairs correspondents, but packs of bewildered cultural critics – <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/12/turner-prize-2015-shortlist-nominations-assemble-bonnie-camplin-janice-kerbel-nicole-wermers">because this is the street that’s been shortlisted for the Turner prize</a>.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/12/turner-prize-2015-shortlist-nominations-assemble-bonnie-camplin-janice-kerbel-nicole-wermers">Turner prize 2015 shortlist: three women – and a housing estate</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/may/12/assemble-turner-prize-2015-wildcard-how-the-young-architecture-crew-assemble-rocked-the-art-world">Continue reading...</a>Turner prize 2015Art and designArchitectureCitiesCultureTurner prizeArtAwards and prizesRegenerationCommunitiesSocietyDesignMaterials scienceFri, 15 May 2015 16:22:17 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/may/12/assemble-turner-prize-2015-wildcard-how-the-young-architecture-crew-assemble-rocked-the-art-worldPhotograph: Andrew Teebay/Liverpool EchoPhotograph: Andrew Teebay/Liverpool EchoOliver Wainwright2015-05-15T16:22:17ZThe world's best student housing: the top 10 architecture projectshttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/sep/02/worlds-best-student-housing-top-10-architecture
Following the disastrous Carbuncle Cup winner, here are 10 inspiring student accommodation blocks from around the world – showing that uni digs don't have to be mean, windowless sheds<p>This year's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/29/carbuncle-cup-student-housing-ucl">winner of the Carbuncle Cup</a> for the country's worst building plumbed new depths of awfulness in standards of student housing – providing cramped cells that look directly on to a brick wall. Adding insult to injury, the planners refused permission for this abysmal scheme, only to have their decision overturned by a planning inspector, setting a precedent that students should be thought of as a subspecies that have no need for natural daylight or decent space standards.</p><p>The tragic thing is that UCL's New Hall residence is far from unique, with speculative stacks of mean-minded hutches erected up and down the country, the product of developers and investors looking to exploit desperate students and lax planning legislation.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/sep/02/worlds-best-student-housing-top-10-architecture">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureDesignArt and designStudent housingStudentsEducationAwards and prizesMon, 02 Sep 2013 11:24:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/sep/02/worlds-best-student-housing-top-10-architecturePhotograph: REX/Jeff BlacklerThe 2013 Carbuncle Cup winner: UCL student housing on Caledonian Road, north London. 'The jury struggled to see it as remotely fit for human habitation.' Photograph: REX/Jeff BlacklerPhotograph: REX/Jeff BlacklerThe 2013 Carbuncle Cup winner: UCL student housing on Caledonian Road, north London. 'The jury struggled to see it as remotely fit for human habitation.' Photograph: REX/Jeff BlacklerOliver Wainwright2013-09-02T11:24:00ZCarbuncle Cup: what's the ugliest building of the year?https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/may/21/carbuncle-cup-ugliest-building-year
From bloated 'icons' to dreary sheds, nominations for the Carbuncle Cup are open. What do you think should win?<p>Architecture is one of the most awarded professions around. There are awards for <a href="http://www.awards.bdonline.co.uk/young-architect-of-the-year-award">young architects</a>, medals for <a href="http://www.architecture.com/Awards/RoyalGoldMedal/RoyalGoldMedal.aspx#.UZpoc5y9yPI">old architects</a>, prizes for <a href="http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/small-projects/">small projects</a> and trophies for <a href="http://www.emporis.com/awards">tall buildings</a>. There are awards for <a href="http://www.landscapeinstitute.co.uk/awards/">landscaping</a> and <a href="http://www.lightingawards.com/home">lighting</a>, <a href="http://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/category/awards/">urbanism</a> and <a href="http://www.publicspace.org/en/prize">public space</a>, as well as for the use of <a href="http://www.woodawards.com/">wood</a> and <a href="http://www.concrete-awards.org.uk/">concrete</a>, <a href="http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2013/02/01/tile-of-spain-awards-2012.html">tiles</a> and <a href="http://www.brick.org.uk/brick-awards">bricks</a>. The phrase "award-winning architect" has never been so meaningless.</p><p>But there is one prize that the profession does its best to avoid winning. The <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/carbuncle-cup-2013-open-for-nominations/5054682.article">Carbuncle Cup</a>, for the ugliest building of the year, was launched by <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/">Building Design</a> magazine in 2006, "for crimes against architecture". It is to the Stirling prize what the Razzies are to the Oscars, a prize to call out the worst offenders in the built environment – from overblown "iconic" gestures to that grim retail shed (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/mar/15/flatpack-flexible-oscar-niemeyer-schools">or is it a school?</a>) on your street.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/may/21/carbuncle-cup-ugliest-building-year">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureDesignArt and designAwards and prizesCultureTue, 21 May 2013 10:36:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/may/21/carbuncle-cup-ugliest-building-yearPhotograph: PR'Wretched hulk' … Opal Court in Leicester was the 2007 winner. Photograph: Building DesignPhotograph: PR'Wretched hulk' … Opal Court in Leicester was the 2007 winner. Photograph: Building DesignOliver Wainwright2013-05-21T10:36:00ZToyo Ito: the 'dropout robot' who never tires of reinventing himselfhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/mar/19/toyo-ito-pritzker-prize-architecture
The 71-year-old architect has finally won the Pritzker prize for an experimental body of work that refuses to be pinned down<p>When it was announced this week that <a href="http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/">Toyo Ito</a> is to receive the 2013 <a href="http://www.pritzkerprize.com/">Pritzker prize</a>, the reaction of many was: "Hasn't he already got it?"</p><p>The 71-year-old Japanese architect is long overdue the venerated gong, having built a consistently revolutionary body of work over the last 40 years, and whose office has already spawned a whole new generation of established Japanese architects – including Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/mar/30/sanaa-architecture-pritzker-prize">Sanaa</a>, who won the Pritzker back in 2010.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/mar/19/toyo-ito-pritzker-prize-architecture">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureJapanArt and designCultureAwards and prizesAsia PacificWorld newsTue, 19 Mar 2013 12:03:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/mar/19/toyo-ito-pritzker-prize-architecturePhotograph: Koji Sasahara/AP'Dropout robot' … Toyo Ito has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker prize, the Nobel prize of the architecture world. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/APPhotograph: Koji Sasahara/AP'Dropout robot' … Toyo Ito has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker prize, the Nobel prize of the architecture world. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/APOliver Wainwright2013-03-19T12:03:00ZSunBloc: the lightweight solar-powered house that fits on a rooftophttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/dec/06/lightweight-solar-house-riba-silver-medal
RIBA Silver Medal award goes to group project that pushes the boundaries of customised self-build housing<p>It has celebrated everything from a <a href="http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-24281">crying coastal defence system</a> to a <a href="http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-21721">seaweed-fuelled power plant</a>, a <a href="http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-20901">dreamy perceptual observatory</a> to an <a href="http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-29391">animated film about robots</a>.</p><p>But this year, the <a href="http://www.presidentsmedals.com/">RIBA's Silver Medal</a> award – the highest honour for an architecture graduate student – has done the most radical thing of all: it has been awarded to a house. And a real one at that.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/dec/06/lightweight-solar-house-riba-silver-medal">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureEducationArchitectureDesignArt and designCultureHousingSocietyTechnologyAwards and prizesThe RIBACommunitiesThu, 06 Dec 2012 12:56:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/dec/06/lightweight-solar-house-riba-silver-medalPhotograph: guardian.co.ukAnswer to the housing crisis? … How the lightweight SunBloc house might look on a rooftop location. Image: SunBlocPhotograph: guardian.co.ukAnswer to the housing crisis? … How the lightweight SunBloc house might look on a rooftop location. Image: SunBlocOliver Wainwright2012-12-06T12:56:00ZWelcome! The architecture and design forum is now openhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/oct/08/our-new-architecture-design-forum-is-open
As the Guardian's new architecture critic, I want to bring debate about our built surroundings into the public domain. From floating villages to animal-shaped buildings, what do you want to discuss? Join the debate here<p>It's that time of year again: the architectural beauty pageant known as the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/stirling-prize" title="">Stirling prize</a> has put six buildings in the media spotlight. But what's still missing from the public debate on architecture and design?</p><p>This year's Stirling shortlist has been declared an "austerity" list, the prevalence of exposed concrete and stripped-back forms supposedly reflecting our straitened times. Yet these are some of the most expensive projects built this year, representing the upper echelons of architectural production: <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/hepworth-wakefield-by-david-chipperfield-architects/5018323.article" title="">an art gallery</a>, <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/lyric-theatre-in-belfast-by-o%E2%80%99donnell-and-tuomey/5019844.article" title="">a theatre</a>, <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/london-2012-olympic-stadium-by-populous/5016249.article" title="">a half-billion pound stadium</a> – plus the new <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/rothschild-bank-headquarters-london-by-oma/5028910.article" title="">headquarters of one of the wealthiest banking families in the world</a>. All are undoubtedly good buildings, but this is largely architecture by and for the 1%.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/oct/08/our-new-architecture-design-forum-is-open">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureArt and designStirling prizeArtAwards and prizesBuildings at riskHeritageHousingSocietyMon, 08 Oct 2012 14:23:48 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/oct/08/our-new-architecture-design-forum-is-openPhotograph: Robert Goddyn - UPA 642738760/prAusterity architecture … but what do you think? The Hepworth Wakefield, art gallery and contender for the Stirling prize. Photograph: Robert GoddynPhotograph: Robert Goddyn - UPA 642738760/prAusterity architecture … but what do you think? The Hepworth Wakefield, art gallery and contender for the Stirling prize. Photograph: Robert GoddynOliver Wainwright2012-10-08T14:23:48Z